According to the Michigan Campaign Finance Network, supporters of the proposal, including the League of Conservation Voters, the BlueGreen Alliance, the American Wind Energy Association, and the Green Tech Action Fund, contributed over $10 million to the campaign. The opposition raised more than $25 million, including $11.5 million from Consumers Energy and $9.4 million from DTE Energy.

The principal arguments against the proposal were:

energy policy should not be written into the Michigan Constitution and

the cost of the energy would be $12 Billion dollars which would raise electric bills.

The counterarguments were:

unless written into the Constitution the utility forces would amend and water down renewable energy legislation; and

the utilities will be spending even more than $12 Billion by 2025 replacing existing generation, and this proposal would have mandated that a portion of that investment go toward renewables.

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